{"id":8242,"date":"2021-01-14T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117728\/hong-kong-protests-court-points-tough-new-guidelines"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:21:26","slug":"hong-kong-protests-court-cites-tough-new-guidelines-in-giving-transport-worker-7-months-jail-for-illegal-assembly-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/hong-kong-protests-court-cites-tough-new-guidelines-in-giving-transport-worker-7-months-jail-for-illegal-assembly-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: court cites tough new guidelines in giving transport worker 7 months\u2019 jail for illegal assembly, assault"},"content":{"rendered":"A Hong Kong transport worker has been jailed for seven months over an illegal assembly and assault on a police sergeant in a 2019 protest, with the presiding magistrate citing tough new sentencing guidelines by the Court of Appeal.Eastern Court jailed Cheung Chin-man on Thursday after ruling a \u201csubstantial\u201d sentence was necessary even in non-violent assemblies, pointing to the appeal court\u2019s highlighting of the need for deterrence in cases stemming from the months-long anti-government protests\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3117728\/hong-kong-protests-court-points-tough-new-guidelines\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hong Kong transport worker has been jailed for seven months over an illegal assembly and assault on a police sergeant in a 2019 protest, with the presiding magistrate citing tough new sentencing guidelines by the Court of Appeal.Eastern Court jailed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}